On the jira, there was a -1 to this idea by Todd followed quickly by another by Ted. I don't have a strong feeling to mount a defense of the idea, so let's forget it.
--- On Fri, 5/20/11, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Stack <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: dynamic configuration loading > To: [email protected], [email protected] > Date: Friday, May 20, 2011, 9:26 PM > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 8:03 PM, > Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Given that Hadoop does not require ZooKeeper, but we > do anyway, I wonder if it makes more sense to go our own > route and host all of configuration in the ZooKeeper > namespace. > > > > > > This could work. On configuration update, we could > write the > difference to the filesystem on each > server. We could write each > individual diff as its own file. We could change the > Configuration to > pick up hbase-site.xml + hbase-default.xml plus any edits > made since > last restart (edits could be written to conf or to an edits > dir?) > > Or, move Configuration into zk altogether. > > St.Ack >
